Fighting the good fight
DRINKING three to five cups of coffee a day could help to significantly lower the risk of suffering Alzheimer’s disease, according to the latest research via Research finds drinking coffee could be key to beating Alzheimer’s | Health | Life & Style | Daily Express.
More“ATTENTION, DEAR COLLEAGUES! Due to an extreme shortage of pillows for athletes who unexpectedly arrived to Olympic Village in the mountains, there will be a transfer of pillows from all apartments to the storehouse on 2 February 2014. Please be understanding. We have to help the athletes out of this bind.” via A Pillow Shortage […]
MoreGodfrey’s Note: This is right out of a Hollywood script, like the show Nikita, where they profile certain people who are in prison and fake their death and turn them into assassins for the government. Seems to me a lot of the movies has roots or takes root later on in reality.
MoreGodfrey’s note: Some say this is a freak of nature while other say its fukushima rads causing it. To early for me to speculate at this point but it does raise concerns. http://za.news.yahoo.com/video/rare-two-headed-whale-washes-074916219.html
MoreThe pilot of a commuter airliner was sucked partway out of his plane but survived, clinging to the rear stairs for 10 minutes as the co-pilot landed the craft, an airline spokesman says. via PILOT IS SURVIVOR IN FREAKISH MISHAP – New York Times.
MoreYou are sitting in bed in your pyjamas, drinking a cup of cocoa. A loved one lies next to you, watching late-night television. Pillow talk is exchanged. An alarm clock is set. Eventually the lights are turned out. via Is your TV spying on YOU? | Mail Online.
MoreAircraft maintenance workers in India found 24 gold bars worth $1.2 million stashed aboard a commercial jet, NBC News contributor Alexander Smith of reports. via Gold Bars Found In Airplane Bathroom – Business Insider.
MoreTSA ‘detention pods’ currently being rolled out at major airports across the U.S. have biometric and object-detecting capabilities, according to promotional material from Eagle Security Group, the company that manufactures the devices. via » Coming Soon: A Biometric Fingerprint Scan Just to Leave the Airport? Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!.
More“He hit me full bore, about knocked me out of my stand, caught me off guard, big time,” Adney told KWTV-TV. via Hunter Attack in Tree Stand Leads to Torn Retina and Possible Eye Transplant — but It Wasn’t by Another Human | Video | TheBlaze.com.
MoreKaufman’s brother Michael spoke at the Andy Kaufman Awards on Monday, the Huffington Post reports, telling a long, winding story that essentially claimed Kaufman was alive and had been living for the past 29 years in total obscurity, raising his family. (He mentioned finding an essay from his brother that detailed how he planned to […]
MoreIndeed, during his State of the Union Address this year, President Obama asserted, “Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. via Poll: Americans Overwhelming Support Raising the Minimum Wage – Daniel […]
MoreSomething is up with the sun. Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync via Strange Doings on the Sun – WSJ.com. Godfrey’s note: The bible tells us that the […]
More“We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it,” said lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California-Los Angeles. “Even more amazing, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise.” via Weird asteroid discovered with 6 comet-like tails.
MoreThe next time you consider eating Chinese street food you might think twice. The use of gutter oil it turns out is pretty common. This refers to a process of pulling waste oil from sewers, grease traps, waste from slaughterhouses, reprocessing it and then selling it as cooking oil. via Chinese Street Vendors Use Gutter […]
More“The cause of such phenomenon lies in the existence of the stratocirrus consisting of ice crystals in the air, and sunlight is reflected by the crystals into such an illusion,” said Chang Xin, a forecaster in Chifeng Meteorological Bureau.
MoreAt first I thought it might be Obama, but then I realized it didn’t have a golf club in its claw.
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